ARTS – Live & Local! August 1st, 2025

Friday, August 1st at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Director Deanna Duplechain and Stage Manager & Sound Designer Jaime Britton with Sarah Ruhl’s “For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday” at The Ten Fifteen Theater in Astoria. Marble Sculptor M.J. Anderson with “Inextinguishable”, her exhibit on our age old relationship…

Poems for Company – July 28th, 2025

“Exile and Return”: What is it like to try to enter and exit Middle Eastern countries, especially Palestine?  Today’s poems offer glimpses, even before the most recent spasm of violence that ripped it apart in October 2023.  Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, “Upon Arrival” and “Immigrant,” from Water and Salt (Red Hen Press, 2017).  Mosab Abu Toha, “Things You…

ARTS – Live & Local! July 25th, 2025

Chelsea Rose, Director of Southern OR University Lab of Anthropology, on the Oregon Chinese Diaspora Project: Uncovering and Maintaining Chinese-American History in Oregon presented by Dr. Jennifer Fang at Obelisk Brewery in Astoria. Artists Luisa Mack & Gregory Gorham with “Oysterville, Pearl of the Peninsula”, an exhibit by eight artists in diverse mediums at Marie…

The Preservationists – July 15th, 2025

The Early Years of the Astoria Regatta: 1894–1916 In this episode host, Astronemis Ray, chats with fellow LCPS Board member Lauri Serafin; who’s been diving deep into the Astoria Regatta’s roots(1894-1916). Together, they explore what those first celebrations looked like: steamboat races on the Columbia, elaborate parades, the crowning of early Regatta Queens, and how…